I'm a 60-year old classic rock and blues guy for the most part, but to me these guys are right up there with the best musicians ever to come arouond. They put all of their emotion into their music and they fucking nailed it!
From what I can remember there was a vacuum that needed to be filled at the time, Radiohead and The Prodigy filled that. Also there seemed to be a certain amount of ambition and hunger involved in both these acts. Of course having the right record company, PA and manager helps too. The internet homogenizes everything so you may not see this kind of thing too often in the future.
This, in my opinion, was the coolest moment ever for Radiohead. I know they did a lot of great stuff after, but they were never as cool as there were in that moment.
Radiohead were the first band I saw in my first term at Sheffield university in September 94 a few days after My Iron Lung was released. They didn’t even play in the bigger room of the student Union. I remember they played this and I was totally blown away and wondered what the hell I had just seen. So glad I saw them in an intimate venue at the peak of their powers.
The more I see Radiohead live, the more certain I am of the following: 1. Thom Yorke is the most captivating frontman ever. 2. Radiohead's better live than on their albums which is to say...holy crap.
I have to pause when this came out I was 14 years old I cannot believe I've been listening to them for this long I'm going to be 40 in December this month peace world have a great night✌✌✌
Oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh Where do we go from here? The words are coming out all weird Where are you now? When I need you Alone on an airplane Falling asleep against the windowpane My blood will thicken I need to wash myself again To hide all the dirt and pain 'Cause I'd be scared That there's nothing underneath And who are my real friends Have they all got the bends? Am I really sinking This slow My baby's got the bends Oh, no We don't have any real friends No, no, no Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen And I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear And where are you? They brought in the C.I.A The tanks and the whole marines to blow me away To blow me sky-high Baby's got the bends We don't have any real friends Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy I wish, I wish, I wish that something would- I want to live, breathe I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe I want to be part of the human race, race, race? Where do we go from here? The words are coming out all weird, where are you now? When I need you
The best ever performance of a Radiohead track commitment and soul to the max and the intensity hasn't ever been reproduced in my opinion back from when I saw this live in the day
two observations - at 3:33 - notice the person in the red shirt sitting down with their hand on their jaw, looking the other way, pred stiff, as if at a poetry reading.. and at 1:55, bloody hell, Jonny's guitar string was closer to Jools Holland than his fretboard! what a legend!
I don't think Radiohead has ever sounded as passionate as they did on The Bends. It was their first 10/10 album in my book. I was 18 when this album came out so at an optimal age to absolutely fall in love with it and for it to become an essential album in my inner musical library. Ok Computer is still my all time favorite album though and I've loved almost everything they've done since. I don't agree with people who underrate this album or see it as "dated" just because it's heavily guitar based or doesn't sound like the aesthetics of 2020. Why should it? It was done in 95 and in 95 it sounded extremely fresh and to me all these songs sound just as timeless as they did already then. Many of these songs are still musically more interesting and moving than majority of what I hear today.
In retrospect, this song (album) is a tad 90s and, by definition, overwrought. Yet they perform it with such powerhouse precision, its absolutely astounding.
as i know, you can choose a bridge that allows you have the strings easily pull out. Some old fender guitars, like jaguars and jazzmasters, have that kind of bridge. Or you can detune your guitar so the string would be easily pulled out off.
There's a ball that comes on the end of strings drilled onto his pickguard that he latches the string onto and then picks as he bends it from the other side. You can see the ball when he does it the first time and hear the string click when he sets it in the groove right before he does it a second time.
Simple the best live performance I've ever had the privilege to watch. Remembering when musicians could do this ? Unlike today's mealie mouthed audio tuned, voice enhanced polished to an inch of their lives excuse for singers. So glad to have been around to appreciate and witness this first hand the 3 times I've got to experience them live in Ireland 🇮🇪 The stuff that makes life long memories Thanks for the music Tom, Jonny and the rest of the band Radiohead will always be my number one all time favourite band.
Luckily my bandmate has a couple teles among a dozen other guitars but it still didn't sound like John's but I wasn't expecting it to sound exactly like it but at least close which it did thanks to contributions from my bassist, guitarist and another friend who helped by letting me borrow pedals and effects board so I sounded kind of close. But all that mattered was that we as a band sounded good. I can't say anything about the singing though
Gavin Gratza thanks I appreciate it. Was this the one that was stolen? I have a way older friend who showed me this vid and told me about his guitar getting stolen
i'm not sure. i don't think so. i know one of his tele's were stolen either on the pablo honey or the bends tour. I believe the guitar that was stolen and all his subsequent tele's were telecaster plus's, which were manufactured in the nineties and had the dual red humbucker lace sensors with a blue in the neck
Yep. This is the one of the stolen ones. Jonny also had one in Ebony Frost which was stolen along with the rest of the gear, but it was recovered and is now in Jonny's possession.
It's Johnny. It's kinda simple (like 3 notes - on the album version) but for reasons I can't explain something about it uplifts maybe more than any other solo (of any band) I can think of.
![Radiohead- "Just" & "Anyone Can Play Guitar" Live in Studio 1995 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tJM5gQ4ZFYE/mqdefault.jpg)
Jonny plays that guitar while swinging it around and still hits notes, The man is a musical powerhouse.
that's because he deadens the strings he doesn't want to ring out. Much easier with heavy distortion
@@robmaddison8645 Thanks for your input, Buzz Killington.
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 I always find that a little knowledge effectively extinguishes the flames of hyperbole
@J.D Horne Due to the topic of discussion I decided to respond metaphorically. After all 'the man is a musical powerhouse'.
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 I lol'd😂
Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen *weeewoooowowoseowowlwleowowoe*
lol dead on!
LOL! Favorite part too
I liked this before that bit happened but so accurate hahaha
Best part!! 😂
My favorite version of this song. Get chills everytime. Fucking johnny greenwood makes this performance legendary..
It was like a neophyte Nietzsche coming on to Philosophy TV. That audience was a bit blown away.
I'm a 60-year old classic rock and blues guy for the most part, but to me these guys are right up there with the best musicians ever to come arouond. They put all of their emotion into their music and they fucking nailed it!
Jonny's guitar is loud and clear and so loud and I love it
Thanks for sharing !!
Aya Ch was lucky enough to see them live 2 months after this they sang every song of the bends àlbulm and a couple of Pablo àlbulm
Aya Ch he uses the Marshall Shredmaster
Bot. Reported.
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888Don't care. Didn't ask.
Could you imagine if a band went on Jools Holland and played like that now? Yeah, me neither.
Bands don’t play like this any more. Ful stop. Period.
@@hughgrection5674 you're not looking hard enough then.
From what I can remember there was a vacuum that needed to be filled at the time, Radiohead and The Prodigy filled that. Also there seemed to be a certain amount of ambition and hunger involved in both these acts. Of course having the right record company, PA and manager helps too. The internet homogenizes everything so you may not see this kind of thing too often in the future.
@@charleshart4985 Name one clever
Sheesus! What a performance from Thom Yorke. This band has a chemistry like few others.
This, in my opinion, was the coolest moment ever for Radiohead. I know they did a lot of great stuff after, but they were never as cool as there were in that moment.
Amen
I agree
The performance of Paranoid Android on Jools Holland in '97 was a bit better.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 that's a legendary performance, and yes, better than this - but I still think that they looked cooler here.
@@キラキラくりくり頭 I liked the blue light they played in in '97. They're all good though.
Thom's voice is really exceptional.
Oh yeh!
I was totally blown away when I saw this in ‘95. And a lifetime Radiohead fan for the rest of my life. What a performance.
Watched when it was first aired jeez my jaw hit the floor 😲 what a band
The value of a chill and a focused rhythm section x
The best performance on Jools Holland ever!
Hard to argue
Different genre completely, but foals' red sox pugie live at jools Holland is a close second place imo
Ben Howard - End of the affair is #1 imo
Radiohead were the first band I saw in my first term at Sheffield university in September 94 a few days after My Iron Lung was released. They didn’t even play in the bigger room of the student Union. I remember they played this and I was totally blown away and wondered what the hell I had just seen. So glad I saw them in an intimate venue at the peak of their powers.
I watched this live. Instantly went & bought album
The more I see Radiohead live, the more certain I am of the following:
1. Thom Yorke is the most captivating frontman ever.
2. Radiohead's better live than on their albums which is to say...holy crap.
1. Amazing, every word that you just said... was wrong. He's absolutely great but certainly not the best.
2. That can't be denied
Check out Muse and its frontman Matthew Bellamy, amazing presence
@@henryd98 its you opinion its not a fact
I've sat front and center for Radiohead on a head full and there's no comparison.
@@henryd98 "Captivating" and "best" are different words. Go eat Mark Hamill's taint.
Jony playing that guitar like it owes him money 💰 🤣
Also Thom at 2:58
I feel sorry for that e string on Jonny's telecaster
I know he's bending it so far it's nearly touching the floor!!
I have to pause when this came out I was 14 years old I cannot believe I've been listening to them for this long I'm going to be 40 in December this month peace world have a great night✌✌✌
You and me both, sister 🙏
13th march 2020 25years of this incredible album
Early Radiohead. What can I say. Genius. Pure genius. The nineties, the last great decade. All hail Radiohead!
Barnstormer of a song, one of their finest, and there are many, bliss
Hot damn this album is so underrated.
It’s pretty rated.
Can’t stop watching this, what a fucking masterpiece
The crowd don’t have a scooby what they’re witnessing
Lol
They just sit there looking unimpressed not realising that they're watching one of the greatest bands of all time.
A few people are into it tho.
I saw this performance when I was eleven years old, on TV of course, this introduced me to Radiohead, and they became one of my top 5 fav bands ever.
Glastonbury 97 was probably the best gig I’ve ever seen them play.
Was absolutely awesome
How many e strings has Johnny gone through in his lifetime
How many e strings has any guitarist ever?
@@ippotsk ong
She be happy in the unconditional love I have enough unconditional love today
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now?
When I need you
Alone on an airplane
Falling asleep against the windowpane
My blood will thicken
I need to wash myself again
To hide all the dirt and pain
'Cause I'd be scared
That there's nothing underneath
And who are my real friends
Have they all got the bends?
Am I really sinking
This slow
My baby's got the bends
Oh, no
We don't have any real friends
No, no, no
Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
And I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
Where do we go from here?
The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
And where are you?
They brought in the C.I.A
The tanks and the whole marines to blow me away
To blow me sky-high
Baby's got the bends
We don't have any real friends
Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would-
I want to live, breathe
I want to be part of the human race
I want to live, breathe
I want to be part of the human race, race, race?
Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird, where are you now?
When I need you
The best ever performance of a Radiohead track commitment and soul to the max and the intensity hasn't ever been reproduced in my opinion back from when I saw this live in the day
I remember watching this at the time - my jaw hit the floor, totally gabsmacked.
2:52 amazing
BEST BAND EVER TRY TO CHANGE MY FUCKINH MINDDDDD
AND then there is music today.........
bloke at 2:46 thinking 'man, these are shit, they'll be forgotten by the milennium'.
He's tapping his foot, leave him alone.
Jonny is out of this world.
the best song they ever did. you can't top the bends, peak alt rock
two observations -
at 3:33 - notice the person in the red shirt sitting down with their hand on their jaw, looking the other way, pred stiff, as if at a poetry reading..
and at 1:55, bloody hell, Jonny's guitar string was closer to Jools Holland than his fretboard! what a legend!
I don't think Radiohead has ever sounded as passionate as they did on The Bends. It was their first 10/10 album in my book. I was 18 when this album came out so at an optimal age to absolutely fall in love with it and for it to become an essential album in my inner musical library. Ok Computer is still my all time favorite album though and I've loved almost everything they've done since. I don't agree with people who underrate this album or see it as "dated" just because it's heavily guitar based or doesn't sound like the aesthetics of 2020. Why should it? It was done in 95 and in 95 it sounded extremely fresh and to me all these songs sound just as timeless as they did already then. Many of these songs are still musically more interesting and moving than majority of what I hear today.
Imo, just before 2:00 it's incredible.
awesome¡¡¡¡¡¡ best of jools show
they look so cool here
Qué buen temaaaaaaaa. Amo a Radiohead ❤❤❤❤🎤🎶
I was born exactly ten years after this album came out 😎😎😎😎😎
Perfection
The bass line on this song is a very very good one!
epic and grand - THIS - is what it's all about. We urgently need a few new of these guys to save us from the sheit we're being drowned in - today.
Only 2000 views ?
OMG ..
There is a vid with both High n Dry and this song on it from this jools Holland session, thats probably why
+Sam Mortley where
+Sam Mortley yeah I'm having trouble finding that one. I used to watch it s lot but I can't find it. Might have been deleted or something.
markmye yeah sorry, i think it's gone, it might be found on other sites, not RUclips.
+Sam Mortley nah it's cool it's just a shame I used to watch that like every day :(
when Ed finally catches the feedback at 2:40...
In retrospect, this song (album) is a tad 90s and, by definition, overwrought. Yet they perform it with such powerhouse precision, its absolutely astounding.
If you first listened to it when you were 14 years old it doesn't matter
I have probably watched this around 3,000 times. Anyone else?
3000 and 2 times lol
I really loved this
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is one of my favorite guitarists of all time. Greetings from Argentina
How does he do that thing with the guitar string wound out so far?
as i know, you can choose a bridge that allows you have the strings easily pull out. Some old fender guitars, like jaguars and jazzmasters, have that kind of bridge. Or you can detune your guitar so the string would be easily pulled out off.
There's a ball that comes on the end of strings drilled onto his pickguard that he latches the string onto and then picks as he bends it from the other side. You can see the ball when he does it the first time and hear the string click when he sets it in the groove right before he does it a second time.
thnx :)
MilesLargeTV do u know what the technique is called?
Jack Sandi-Edwards not really a name, just Jonny experimenting with new sounds!
Simple the best live performance I've ever had the privilege to watch.
Remembering when musicians could do this ?
Unlike today's mealie mouthed audio tuned, voice enhanced polished to an inch of their lives excuse for singers.
So glad to have been around to appreciate and witness this first hand the 3 times I've got to experience them live in Ireland 🇮🇪
The stuff that makes life long memories
Thanks for the music Tom, Jonny and the rest of the band
Radiohead will always be my number one all time favourite band.
MASTERPIECE
I need a real time machine, maybe I'll stick around the 90s for awhile
Philip’s hair looking good here 🔥
Before RUclips, I got this on VHS.
Sorry Computer. You’re not OK that time.
♥ 2:45 ♥
They look like babies here lol. Incredible performance.
if I were the audience I wouldn't be able to hold myself back
sweet Christ
Jonny exceed in the bends of that tele string
my king colin i didn’t even notice him he needs more screen time
this is insanely good
One word 'epic'
What shampoo Jonny uses?
great performance
1:50 wtf
Keefer Aris 😨
Keefer Aris the
Angie Platts bends
That's so spooky
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What a crazy song it is!
As good now as it was then...
Perfect.
Jonny's attitude to his high E string: I must break you
Ed dipping the guitar trying to work out how to play the thing. Background Ed ;-)
jonny greenwood is genius🎉🎉🎉
How do you like something more than once?
I want to play a song for Jools…
My god they’re amazing
Bends era Thom was soooo cute
my baby's got depends
Somehow to me, despite RH's huge guitar attack, they have never sounded like a guitar band to me. Weird.
Single most intense band, single most intense song, single most intense performance.
Class
Two rock stars, three accountants.
Simon H Wheezing
wow wow wow
How to rock the fuck out man...............
EOB + Rickenbacker + Tremoverb combo = killer
GOAT
They were good though, weren't they? :-)
Superior to the studio version if you ask me
Luckily my bandmate has a couple teles among a dozen other guitars but it still didn't sound like John's but I wasn't expecting it to sound exactly like it but at least close which it did thanks to contributions from my bassist, guitarist and another friend who helped by letting me borrow pedals and effects board so I sounded kind of close. But all that mattered was that we as a band sounded good. I can't say anything about the singing though
Verses played @ 0.75
Anyone know what kind of pickups John has in his Tele?
Lace Sensors
dual red lace sensors in the bridge, blue lace sensor in the neck
Gavin Gratza thanks I appreciate it. Was this the one that was stolen? I have a way older friend who showed me this vid and told me about his guitar getting stolen
i'm not sure. i don't think so. i know one of his tele's were stolen either on the pablo honey or the bends tour. I believe the guitar that was stolen and all his subsequent tele's were telecaster plus's, which were manufactured in the nineties and had the dual red humbucker lace sensors with a blue in the neck
Yep. This is the one of the stolen ones. Jonny also had one in Ebony Frost which was stolen along with the rest of the gear, but it was recovered and is now in Jonny's possession.
1:50
3:05 who exactly is playing that lead solo?
It's Johnny. It's kinda simple (like 3 notes - on the album version) but for reasons I can't explain something about it uplifts maybe more than any other solo (of any band) I can think of.
I love that this question has to be asked. 3 guitarists playing at the same time is always hilarious to see.
So lush
Ripping the string from the neck, momentous!
Brilliant prob nothing better done JH
Think about this was in a tv show... and he's right, where do we go from here?
might be the best 4 minutes of Radiohead if you only had 4 minutes